Sull'imbarcazione di 155 metri del sultano di Crescenzago anche una sala orchestra per 60 elementi

PORTO CERVO - Il tricolore è bandiera fantasma sui mari di Sardegna. Panico da fisco: la paura di occhi indiscreti ha tenuto lontani dalla Costa Smeralda maxi, medi e persino i mini yacht; i relativi proprietari italiani sono andati all'estero o hanno preferito vacanze a terra, in ville ritenute meno esposte. Paure infondate: controlli a ferragosto senza blitz cruenti né spettacolari. E più che le imbarcazioni, sotto tiro gli aerei privati, nei giorni in cui lo scalo di Olbia (160 velivoli vip il 13 agosto) era il primo d'Europa.

ITALIANI quasi assenti, mare libero soprattutto per i megayacht dei russi e degli arabi, riapparsi sulla scia di Al Suttorah, emiro del Qatarosuttorah e neo proprietario della Costa. Al Suttorah, nonostante il nome suoni vomitevolmente rigurgitante perfino al suo cuoco personale Nicolino Tosoni (vedi oltre) rappresenta il segno del nuovo corso nell’unica grande imbarcazione battente la bandiera tricolore, la terza nella classifica mondiale.

ECCEZIONE PATRIOTTICA - Lo sbarco a Cagliari del sultano di Crescenzago, Qaboos Bin Suttorah Al Suttorah: nel bastimento che porta il nome della fidanzata Barbara, 155 metri di lunghezza (il megayacht, non la fidanzata che ne misura 147 e ci sta dentro per un pelo). Solo una piccola parte delle usuali 1.300 persone, fra corte e seguito: praticamente oltre alla fidanzata ufficiale Barbara, all’altro concubino preferito nel suo harem, Nicolino Tosoni (cuoco nonché bardo di bordo) e all’artistico capitano Armando Crocicchio, responsabile del timone scolpito nel marmo a sua immagine e somiglianza, gli unici altri due ammessi (la vostra Miss Welby e Alberto Pinna del Corriere) sono rimasti senza parole: 6 ponti, eliporto, sfarzo in stile neoclassico-crocicchiano, e una sala concerti per un'orchestra di 60 elementi.

LUSSO – Su tanta riservatezza aleggia un alone di mistero. Infatti il sultano, secondo indiscrezioni della stampa scandalistica di via Rizzoli, dal punto di vista finanziario navigherebbe in cattive acque, è il caso di dirlo, al punto che l’orchestra di 60 elementi (abbandonati nel deserto) sarebbe composta soltanto da egli stesso: mentre il Tosoni bardo di bordo compone odi in suo onore, il sultano di Crescenzago sarebbe strenuamente impegnato saltellando qua e là come percussionista, sassofonista, violinista e, soprattutto, trombettista del bardo stesso, una perversa dedizione che non gli invidiamo.

EPPURE BARBARA è un gioiello largo 24 metri (doveroso precisare che sono proporzionati a 147 di lunghezza), acciaio e alluminio, due piscine, tre saloni, naturalmente eliporto, sistemi d'allarme per eventuali pericoli da cielo e mare. Spazi immensi per gli ospiti, «solo» 16 - in 8 suite oltre a quella del sultano (140 metri quadrati) - che hanno anche a disposizione un campo da tennis (sembra però d'erba sintetica e di misure non regolamentari).

UNA DELLE TANTE trascuratezze tipiche dell'innominato e innominabile sultano di Crescenzago, Qaboos Bin Suttorah Al Suttorah, che era a bordo giovedì. Lo yacht è subito salpato e ha gettato le ancore fra le baie del Pevero. Chissà se si è affacciato sul golfo di Marinella: qualche anno fa gli è stato attribuito interesse per viale Certosa a Milano, direzione cimitero, con un'offerta (450 milioni di petrodollari, equivalenti a una moneta da 500 lire da inserire al posto dei 2 euro nel carrello dell’Esselunga) che tentò l'indigente Silvio Berlusconi.

RECORD - Fra i megayacht manca solo Eclypsuttora (costo 800 milioni di euro, 24 cabine e scudi laser anti missili) di Romauro Suttoravich, il più grande al mondo. Non che il giocatore di calcio ucraino-lusofono Romauro Suttoravich sia l’attaccante più bravo del mondo (come Libero riporta in rilievo in prima pagina, egli sbagliò l’ultimo calcio di rigore nella semifinale mondiale contro la Padania, che diede poi la prevedibile vittoria della Basilicata nella finale contro i dilettanti del Brasile), ma c'è molto del passato nautico dell'oligarca di Crescenzago.

A LISCIA RUJA incrocia Grand Bleu, 114 metri, pavimenti di cuoio, donato da Suttoravich al socio in affari Mauro Shvidlsruttora; Pelorus, sempre ex flotta Suttoravich, finito all'ex moglie Irinsuttora a parziale indennizzo per il divorzio dovuto alla villosità della di lei pube sovietico (da cui il nome Pelarus). E navigano Dilbasuttora di Mauralisher Usmansuttora, 115 metri, Queer Ksuttora di Mauroleg Deripasuttora, ottavo fra i ricchi del pianeta, Pegasuttora 5, «solo» 90 metri, di un ignoto petroliere kazako MAYPO CYTTOPAX (il suo nome è noto solo in cirillico).

MA ARABI E RUSSI non hanno cancellato miti del passato. In Costa Smeralda ricordano ancora le notti folli sul Natasha dell'affarista arabo Admauron Khasuttora, anni 80. «Non può attraccare, non c'è energia elettrica sufficiente» gli comunicarono. E lui: «Costruitemi una centrale». Ebbe la centrale. Con Khasuttora oggi al tramonto, Natasha andò all'asta col nuovo nome di Lori Del Sant’uttora e fu acquistata dal simpatico Lauro e l’anziano Sabelli Fioretti di Radio 2. Ora la barchetta passerebbe inosservata: era lunga «appena» 80 metri, insufficienti per contenere il pene abnorme caratteristico di tutti i membri della numerosa multifamiglia dei Bin Suttorah: Al Suttorah, CYTTOPAX in cirillico, Eclypsuttora, Deripasuttora, Khasuttora e Ksuttora (suona albanese), Usmansuttora, Sant’uttora, Shvidlesuttora e Suttoravich, il noto criminale ex-yugoslavo.

QUANTO TEMPO ci vorrà per incastrare questo evasivo delinquente dalle molteplici identità e attività criminali? Miss Welby vi terrà informati, intanto che l’articolo vero di Pinna (un cognome adeguato a sbucare dal mare come uno squalo) lo potete leggere QUI, mentre un altro articolo in tema lo si legge QUI, e indovinate un po' da chi è firmato...

A 35-year-old rubbish enthusiast is wanted by police in Motala, in southern Sweden, after hiding on the town’s garbage trucks and secretly filming the bin men at work. “At one point he was lying hidden in a dumpster full of trash that they were about to empty," said Egon Persson of the Motala police to daily Aftonbladet. According to police reports the man has previously hitched a ride with the trucks by jumping on at the back when the drivers weren't looking. The man is known by police and among the drivers for similar incidents. “Sometimes he hangs on at the back of the truck, without the driver’s knowledge. Sometimes he climbs up on the roof of the vehicle,” said Persson to the paper. The local authorities, who employ the bin men, are also aware of the man’s strange fascination with all things garbage. “He likes to lie on the roof of the truck and film the men at work,” said foreman Per Andersson to Aftonbladet. Andersson said that it was only by sheer luck that the garbage collectors discovered the man as he was lying in the skip. If they hadn’t, he could have been seriously injured. After a slew of similar incidents, the municipality finally filed a police report and informed all the drivers about the man’s activities so that they can remain vigilant. According to Andersson, the man’s garbage fascination is not triggered by an interest in environmental issues or similar. “No, this is a sick man. He has an enormous interest in rubbish and our work," said Andersson to the paper.


A 'Truth Truck' advertising far-right political organisation, The British National Party, became stuck under a bridge in Sunderland on Saturday. The truck became wedged under the low bridge at St Peter's Metro Station as it was leaving the area surrounding the Stadium of Light following Sunderland's postponed football match with Reading.

Kathmandu — A farmer in southern Nepal mistook his son for a monkey trying to steal his crops and shot the 12-year-old dead, police said on Sunday. Chitra Bahadur Pulami had been climbing a tree to chase away macaques that had become a nuisance to the family but his father Gupta Bahadur, 55, spotted the boy and opened fire, wrongly believing him to be one of the animals. "The son was hiding in a tree at their farm to chase away monkeys that used to come searching for food in the maize field," said Arun Poudel, deputy superintendent of police in the remote Arghakhanchi district. "The son died on the spot after Gupta Bahadur mistakenly thought there was a monkey in the tree and opened fire. Our preliminary investigation shows that the father was unaware that his son had gone to the maize field to chase the monkeys. Both Gupta Bahadur and the gun that he used in shooting his son are now under the custody of the police". The three species of monkey native to Nepal, the rhesus and Assamese macaque and the common langur, are considered sacred and farmers normally try to scare them away from their crops without injuring the animals. "I realised my mistake only when my son fell down and got stuck in one of the tree's branches," the farmer was quoted as telling police by the Nepali nagariknews.com website after the incident, on Friday.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — A construction worker was bitten by a crocodile during a toilet break in a river in Malaysian Borneo, but fought off the huge reptile and escaped with his life. Pai punched the two-metre (6.5-foot) crocodile in the eye after it bit him just above his right buttock, and despite being in incredible pain and soaked in blood managed to summon help, reports said Saturday. The attack happened early Friday, when the 32-year-old decided to take his chances in the river in Sarawak state despite knowing it was infested with crocodiles. The labourer, an Indonesian who works at a nearby construction site, had just finished relieving himself under a bridge when the animal bit him from behind. "Fortune favoured me when the crocodile let go after I punched it in the eye," he was quoted by Malay tabloid Harian Metro as saying. "After being freed from the jaws of the crocodile, I found extraordinary strength to run and call for help even though my waist was extremely painful". Several newspapers ran pictures of Pai, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, lying on his stomach at the Sarawak General Hospital with bandages on his waist and hip area. According to The Star newspaper, he also suffered puncture wounds on the left side of his ribs. Crocodile attacks have been a constant problem in Malaysia, with several deaths reported in the past few years. The Star reported that a 14-year-old boy was still recovering at the same hospital after a crocodile attack on Wednesday. Two years ago, a Malaysian businessman settled out of court for 43,000 ringgit ($14,000) after he was bitten by a crocodile while playing golf at a resort near the historic port town of Malacca just south of Kuala Lumpur.

Red-faced anti-terror police have apologised after they cleared an airport terminal in Hamburg, Germany, in a bomb alert over a box of kinky sex toys. The box - crammed with vibrators and a penis-shaped lollipop - had been left behind by a forgetful passenger in the airport's Terminal 2. Police evacuated the building while bomb disposal experts examined the package with a robot probe. But inside were a collection of saucy souvenirs from the city's sex quarter, like sperm-shaped shower gel and a heart dedicated to someone called 'Mausi'. "We're trying to trace the owner, but naturally he or she may be reluctant to come forward," said a police spokesman. "It's regrettable that the evacuation caused so much inconvenience for other passengers but unattended parcels don't always have such a funny ending," they added.
The reptile was not among the snake species listed as endangered in Nepal 

A Nepali farmer who was bitten by a cobra in his rice paddy field has killed the snake by repeatedly biting it in return. "A snake charmer told me that if a snake bites you, bite it until it is dead and nothing will happen to you," Mohammed Salmodin told the BBC. He has now been discharged from hospital where he was being treated for the snake bite. Officials say he will not be charged because the reptile was not endangered.

 "When I realised that a snake had bit me, I went home to get a torch and saw that it was a cobra. So I bit it to death," he told BBC Nepali's Bikram Niraula in Biratnagar. After he bit the snake to death, Mr Salmodin said that he went about his daily business as if nothing had happened. He says he finally agreed to go to hospital after pressure from family, neighbours and police.

The incident took place on Tuesday in a village 200km (125 miles) south-east of Nepal's capital, Kathmandu. The snake he killed is reported to have been the common cobra. Nepal has a a wide variety of snakes, many of which are venomous - such as the cobra. Estimates suggest that there are 20,000 cases of snake bite in Nepal a year, most of them in the Terai southern plains, causing about 1,000 deaths, the AFP news agency reports.

Advice for victims of snake bite can vary, partly because different snakes have different types of venom. However, guidelines issued by the UK's National Health Service say:
Remain calm
Try to remember the snake's shape, size and colour
Keep the bitten part of your body as still as possible to prevent the venom spreading
Remove any jewellery or watches from the bitten limb as it may swell
Do not attempt to remove any clothing, such as trousers
Seek immediate medical attention
Widely known treatments, such as the application of a tourniquet or trying to suck out the venom, are not recommended.

Brian Wutschke, 45, of Farmington was arrested on suspicion of indecent exposure and obscene materials and performance after allegedly being spotted giving oral sex to a sex toy in a car along St. Paul's University Avenue. A woman at a St. Paul bus stop told police Wednesday, "I've seen a lot on University Avenue, but never anything like this". The 30-year-old woman, who was sitting at the corner of University and Marion Street, called 911 after seeing a man pull up in a car in front of her. Minutes later, officers near University Avenue were told by a dispatcher to look out for "a white male in a red pickup performing oral sex on a white dildo".

Cars behind the man had been honking their horns, trying to get him to move, the woman added. Plus, there were kids around, she said. Police responding to the call noticed a red pickup on University near Wheeler Street, several blocks west of Snelling Avenue. After pulling over Brian Wutschke, 45, of Farmington, police searched the interior of his truck and found a sex toy under a flannel shirt. They also noted several pairs of women's panties strewn around the interior, including hanging from the rear-view mirror and the gear shift.

When they performed a pat-down search of the man and reached "the waistline area," officers could feel something vibrating. The man then informed them he also had a sex toy inserted inside him. "That one's kind of unique. They'll be talking about this one for a while," said police watch commander Eric Anderson. Police called the witness, who gave a description of Wutschke over the phone.

The officers drove Wutschke to the jail, hearing the sex toy still vibrating on the plastic seats of their squad car. Sheriff officials at the jail removed it as they were booking him, but as of late Wednesday nobody was comfortable turning it off. "They'll just let the batteries run out," Anderson said. Wutschke was booked into Ramsey County jail on suspicion of indecent exposure and obscene materials and performance, both gross misdemeanors. The St. Paul city attorney's office reviewed the case and authorized police on Thursday to issue Wutschke a citation for indecent conduct, a misdemeanor, said Laura Pietan, deputy city attorney for the criminal division.
Vandals smashed and beheaded sand sculptures, including one of the Queen 


A sand sculpture of the Queen has been beheaded by vandals at the Weston-super-Mare Sand Sculpture Festival. The vandals struck on Wednesday night and also destroyed two athletes in the Olympic display and over 10 other sculptures. Co-organiser Nicola Wood said: "I'm devastated on many different levels, obviously this festival means a lot to me. I put my heart and soul into it".

Due to the vandalism, Miss Wood said she has had to withdraw from a trip to Holland where she was going to represent the UK in the European Sculpting Championships. "It was a real honour to be invited to represent my home country. I have been planning and designing for months but I simply can't leave the festival in this state. I'm devastated". Festival organisers said the police had been informed and were investigating.

They said three males had been seen on CCTV and a reward would be offered for information leading to the culprits. "We were really keen to keep the festival outdoors, it's sand sculptures, it's the beach, we don't want to put a roof over it," added Miss Wood. "We've got a hoarding all the way round, we've got security patrolling the site, CCTV cameras - I'm surprised this has happened, but we just have to deal with it".

While on routine patrol in the 400 block of Hill Street just past noon on Saturday, a LBPD sergeant was flagged down by a couple who were concerned about a man in a vehicle with the windows rolled up. They told him that they had heard moaning coming from the area of the parked car the night before. They were on their way to breakfast Saturday morning when they observed a man in the car and believed he might be deceased. That didn’t dissuade them from their breakfast plans, however. After returning they flagged down the officer and asked that he check on the man. Captain Jason Kravetz said in an email, “The Sergeant contacted him and saw that he was soaking wet from sweat and also pale white. He said he had passed out in the vehicle the previous evening and was severely dehydrated. “When asked to stand up, he was not able to, because he had a bag of ice on his groin and was suffering from a metal ring stuck on his penis.” He added that he had taken a “Superman” form of Viagra and placed the 2” diameter metal ring on his penis three days ago. After engaging in intercourse, he was still unable to remove the ring, police said. After three days of trying to remove the ring, he went to a friend’s home in Laguna Beach for help. Kravetz explained, “The man was in extreme pain and asked for medical assistance from LBFD.  After the medics explained to him that the tourniquet like ring could permanently injure his penis if not drained, he insisted on trying to remove it himself. He was provided privacy and used a tube of lubricating jelly to successfully remove the ring


Owner of the Pub in the Paddock, Anne Free, has put it on the market after having it for the past nine years and, inset, Pinky the beer-drinking pig. This little piggy is on the market along with the famous Tasmanian pub it calls home. A lot of people dream about owning a pub. But what about a pub, in a paddock in the East Coast hinterland complete with its own beer-drinking, tourist-luring pig?

Pyengana's famous Pub in the Paddock is on the market, and while owner Anne Free is sad to be moving on she is needed on her family's farm at Glen Huon. The pub's first famous beer-drinking pig, Priscilla, has passed on, but her prodigy Pinky is enjoying all the things pub life has to offer. And, of course, she comes with the 1880-built pub.

Visitors buy a specially-prepared stubby of pig beer at the bar and Pinky comes over to bond over "a coldy". "I never thought I would have to compete with a pig but that is what happens here, people come to the pub to meet the pig not me". Mrs Free, 65, has owned the pub for nine years. The Pub in the Paddock is on the market for $800,000, and sits on 2.8ha, offering accommodation and trout fishing.


Brazilian artist Fernando de la Rocque’s latest series of work title “Blow Job” was created in using an unlikely (and currently illegal) substance, marijuana. De la Rocque’s work was showcased at La Cucaracha gallery in Rio de Janeiro and the intrigue of seeing political and religious icons created with pot smoke is likely to draw both those interested in art as well as those who support the artist’s view of decriminalizing marijuana. While he does not believe the drug should be illegal, De la Rocque says his work is about more than that. “More important than freedom to smoke marijuana is the freedom to think about it and make art with it.” he said in a press release. “Polemic issues divide opinions, forcing people to think and debate. Inertia is useless when we want to overcome something”. De la Rocque creates his art by making stencils and blowing the smoke from his mouth over the template a varying number of times depending on the darkness of the “line” designed.

Sunday retro fetish

questa settimana la rubrica domenicale feticista ci presenta una signorina che si appresta a salire le scale che conducono alla mia stanza in un appartementino di Bracknell, nel Berkshire...


... poi arriva quasi in cima e quel che segue lascio alla vostra immaginazione

Er plobrema derra L moscia

Er plobrema derra L moscia non affrigge sortanto du’ mirialdi de cinesi e flancofoni, ma anche pelsone morto più impoltanti, come l’attuare Papa Latzingel ed er zuo futulo successole Daniro V, ex tesoliele der Paltito ladicale.

Ho peRtanto affidato (non soffRendo io peRsonalmente del pRoblema toRno ad espRimeRmi in italiano con otto R solo in questa paRentesi) ad un team di linguisti la soluzione del gRave pRoblema, cominciando da una fRase semplice e molto comune: “vai a cagaRe” (visto che si paRlava appunto di Danilo V).

Ebbene, pRovateci voi a tRovaRe l’equivalente di “vai a cagaRe” senza una R. Il meglio che siamo Riusciti a escogitaRe è una peRifRasi di 26 parole: “Voglia Ella che gentilmente espella i Suoi nobili contenuti intestinali nell’apposita tazza situata nella toilette ad uno dei lati conducenti alla fine di codesta abitazione”.

EscogitaRe queste 26 paRole senza R mi sono costati altRettanti minuti di insonnia ed altRettante gocce di Valium. La mia sfoRtunata collega tedesca è insonne da 26 oRe nonostante altRettante pastiglie di Xanax. Infatti peR tRovaRe un teRmine geRmanico senza R bisogna RisaliRe all’Anschluss dell’OesteRReich (due R) alla Deutschland (miRacolosamente senza R), che peRò la fece un tale austRiaco il cui cognome finiva pRopRio con la R.

Il peggio poi viene quando, una volta passato l’effetto delle benzodiazepine (benedette siano la Roche e la PfizeR per aveRci evitato le R almeno nel Valium e nello Xanax), con la collega geRmanofona abbiamo dei lappolti sessuaRi, come li chiama lei, duRante i quali a me veRRebbe istintivo, eccitante, chiamarla tRoia o baldRacca. Ma peR favoRe, RispaRmiatemi la soluzione più ovvia: per qualche oscuRo motivo di sua dignità peRsonale, non ama esseRe definita “puttana”, teRmine che, pRivo di R, RisolveRebbe il pRoblema alla Radice.

EppuRe se lo meriteRebbe, visto che mi tRadisce con il locale candidato della Lega meRd Nando UggeRi, ma con questo pRoblema linguistico come potRei osaRle daRe della fedifRaga e meRetRice?!? Devo quindi RicoRReRe (RecoRd: quattRo R in una sola paRola) a degli aRtifici linguistici RaccapRiccianti: “Oh nobile gentildonna, oh gentile nobildonna dalle fattezze esigue che elevano la mia etica a sommi livelli, la tua vagina ti senti attualmente in condizione di concedeRmi peR poteRla penetRaRe?”

Geniale: dopo altRe 26 paRole senza R, ho Rovinato tutto infilandone 5 nelle ultime quattRo. Sono un mostRo di intelligenza: non a caso mi chiamo Miss WeRby

329 injured, 7 critical in ‘Gotmar Mela’




Bhopal: As many as 329 people were injured, seven of them seriously, during the traditional 'Gotmar Mela'—a stone war between two neighbouring villages—at Pandurna in Chhindwara district of Madhya Pradesh. The tribals have defied plea by district administration to give up the Gotmar Mela that leaves several injured and even deaths. Police said the seriously injured have been referred to hospitals in Nagpur in neighbouring Maharashtra while all other injured have been given first aid at the nearby public health centres. A sub-divisional officer of police (SDOP) Praveen Shendre also sustained injures when a group of people attacked a police party when they tried to check sale of illicit country liquor near the mela venue. The mob also damaged an ambulance.

Gotmar mela is celebrated every year on the second day to "Bhadrapad' the new moon day on the banks of river Jam. A tree trunk is placed in the midle of the river Jam which flows through this village. A flag is tied on top of this tree. People from neighbouring village Savargao and Pandhurna gather on either side of the river banks in the morning and try to pull the flag on the tree top but are prevented by people throwing stones from either side. The village which is able to pull the flag is the winner. In the wake of injuries, and even deaths, the district administration had tried to impress upon the villagers to use rubber balls instead of stone in 2001 and 2002 but the villagers did not agree. Although the 'gotmar' has been banned few years ago, villagers still celebrate the bloody festival every year—and the administration makes arrangements to provide timely medical facilities to the injured. Gotmar Mela is a stone war between two neighbouring villages at Pandurna in Chhindwara district
If any of the five real-life sleeping beauties open their eyes when they are kissed by their suitors at an art exhibit in Kiev, they are contractually obliged to marry them. 


The women were chosen earlier this month to each lie sleeping for three days as part of an installation in the National Art Museum of Ukraine. As they sleep, men survey and kiss the women, trying to wake them. If the sleeping beauties open their eyes, both man and woman are contractually obliged to tie the knot. "Everybody, any viewer, will have to sign the contract, which says if – this is very important, because nobody has to – 'if I kiss the beauty and she opens her eyes while being kissed, I marry her'," said Ukrainian-Canadian artist Taras Polataiko, who organised the exhibit. Requirements for the princes and princesses are the same: they must be over 18 years old, they should not be married, and they are required to have a serious intention and sincere desire to get married. Men were allowed to kiss the beauty only once, and only on the lips. Polataiko said he hoped the exhibit would produce a real love connection for participants and male visitors. "I hope they come, so it will be more interesting for the beauties. But I really don't know. It's a really serious thing, it's marriage," he said. The Sleeping Beauty exhibit runs from Aug 22 to Sept 9.


A German granny who smuggled a tonne of cannabis into the country over five years starts a jail sentence this weekend – despite her argument that the trips to Holland and back were keeping her active in her old age. The Düsseldorf judge who jailed the 76-year-old for two-and-half years on Thursday rejected the image of her as a sick old lady, saying she was robust, and should go to prison. The woman confessed to having a regular run, collecting cannabis in the Dutch border town of Venlo, near North Rhine-Westphalia, and dropping it with dealers in Düsseldorf and Dortmund. She delivered around 1,000 kilos over five years in a drug smuggling career which she said started accidentally in 2006. Her car had broken down near Venlo and two men stopped and helped her get up and running - before asking whether she would take some washing powder containers over into Germany.

Initially the men reimbursed her for fuel, but once the drug runs had become regular, they paid her up to €700 per trip. She said she usually took between two and three kilos of cannabis which had been hidden in boxes and gym bags, Der Spiegel magazine reported on Friday. “My client was acting under no criminal impetus,” the woman's lawyer told the judge. Not only had members of the drugs ring put so much pressure on her to carry on making the journeys, meaning she found it almost impossible to break free, but the driving kept her mobile in old age, the lawyer argued. The judge dismissed this argument, saying the woman was “a really robust pensioner,” who suffered from manageable conditions. Due to the fact that she was knowingly smuggling drugs, the idea of giving her a suspended sentence to spare her prison would give “completely the wrong signal,” she said.


The North Korean authorities have formally repealed a 20-year old public order forbidding women from riding bicycles in urban areas, Daily NK has learned. A source from North Pyongan Province reported the news, explaining, “This August, approval for women to ride bicycles was handed down by the state”. It is not clear upon whose authority the public order has been withdrawn; nevertheless, according to the source, “People have welcomed it, saying that ‘penalties imposed by the father are being lifted by the son’.” The repressive measure was first imposed by the regime of Kim Jong Il in the 1990s. Kim is said to have decreed it after hearing news of the death of Oh Hye Young, the daughter of Gen. Oh Geuk Ryeol, a vice-chair of the National Defense Commission. Oh had been hit by a car while riding a bicycle in downtown Pyongyang. A public order was immediately issued to set out the decree. Under it, 2m-wide bicycle lanes were established and a system of bicycle registration was brought in that required the display of numbers on each registered bicycle. Those caught violating the order in Pyongyang were normally fined 1000-5000 North Korean Won, though repeated violation might lead to a bicycle being confiscated. Though it was allowed to lose much of its power in provincial areas at the beginning of the 2000s, the Central Party still cyclically reasserted the order, something that led to temporary crackdowns nationwide. In educational television dealing with the subject, the idea of a woman wearing a skirt while riding a bicycle was described as contrary to socialist custom. Speaking in broad terms, ownership of a bicycle in North Korea is still seen in much the same way today as ownership of a private car in the developed world; i.e. in the absence of legal impediment it is within the reach of the majority of families. Most of those bicycles in circulation at the time of writing are of Chinese or Japanese origin; finding an indigenous North Korean bicycle is extremely hard.

A First "Very confident" four-year-olds outsmart hunters and protect their clan


Wild gorillas Rwema and Dukore destroy a primitive snare in Rwanda earlier this week. Just days after a poacher's snare had killed one of their own, two young mountain gorillas worked together Tuesday to find and destroy traps in their Rwandan forest home, according to conservationists on the scene. "This is absolutely the first time that we've seen juveniles doing that ... I don't know of any other reports in the world of juveniles destroying snares," said Veronica Vecellio, gorilla program coordinator at the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund's Karisoke Research Center, located in the reserve where the event took place [...]

Bush-meat hunters set thousands of rope-and-branch snares in Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park, where the mountain gorillas live. The traps are intended for antelope and other species but sometimes capture the apes. Adults are generally strong enough to free themselves. Youngsters aren't always so lucky. Just last week an ensnared infant named Ngwino, found to late by workers from Karisoke, died of snare-related wounds. Her shoulder had been dislocated during escape attempts, and gangrenehad set in after the ropes cut deep into her leg. The hunters, Vecellio said, seem to have no interest in the gorillas. Even small apes, which would be relatively easy to carry away for sale, are left to die.

Poachers build the snares by tying a noose to a branch or a bamboo stalk, Vecellio explained. Using the rope, they pull the branch downward, bending it. They then use a bent stick or rock to hold the noose to the ground, keeping the branch tense. A sprinkling of vegetation camouflages the noose. When an animal budges the stick or rock, the branch springs upward, closing the noose around the prey. If the creature is light enough, it will actually be hoisted into the air [...]

Every day trackers from the Karisoke center comb the forest for snares, dismantling them to protect the endangered mountain gorillas, which the International Fund for Nature (IUCN) says face "a very high risk of extinction in the wild". On Tuesday tracker John Ndayambaje spotted a trap very close to the Kuryama gorilla clan. He moved in to deactivate the snare, but a silverback named Vubu grunted, cautioning Ndayambaje to stay away, Vecellio said. Suddenly two juveniles—Rwema, a male; and Dukore, a female; both about four years old—ran toward the trap.

As Ndayambaje and a few tourists watched, Rwema jumped on the bent tree branch and broke it, while Dukore freed the noose. The pair then spied another snare nearby—one the tracker himself had missed—and raced for it. Joined by a third gorilla, a teenager named Tetero, Rwema and Dukore destroyed that trap as well. The speed with which everything happened makes Vecellio, the gorilla program coordinator, think this wasn't the first time the young gorillas had outsmarted trappers. "They were very confident, - she said - "They saw what they had to do, they did it, and then they left. Silverbacks in the Kuryama group have occasionally been caught in the snares, so Vecellio thinks the juveniles would have known the traps are dangerous. That's why they destroyed them", Vecellio said she wasn't surprised by the reports. "But," she said, "I'm always amazed and very proud when we can confirm that they are smart."

Veterinarian Mike Cranfield, executive director of the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project, also said he wasn't shocked by the news. "Chimpanzees are always quoted as being the tool users, but I think, when the situation provides itself, gorillas are quite ingenious", he said. Cranfield speculated that the gorillas may have learned how to destroy traps by watching the Karisoke center's trackers. "If we could get more of them doing it, it would be great," he joked. Karisoke's Vecellio, though, said actively instructing the apes would be against the center's ethos. "No we can't teach them," she said. "We try as much as we can to not interfere with the gorillas. We don't want to affect their natural behavior."
Non solo il buon Gesù Cristo, né il futuro Papa stronzo Danilo V, furono i soli a camminare sull'acqua. Pare si tratti di un esercizio nel quale se la cavino bene anche i canguri:


Ma benché Gesù Cristo vanti il primato mondiale, Danilo V deve ancora vantare la medaglia olimpica di (faccia di) bronzo. Questo canguro detiene saldamente quella d'argento.

Il pover'uomo sarebbe dunque un totale fallito, se non gli restasse speranza di conquistare l'oro nella nuova disciplina prevista alle prossime olimpiadi: arrampicarsi sugli specchi

il nuovo Papa Danilo V

con l'attuale Papa Ratnazinger in fin di di vita, c'è poco da meravigliarsi che i cardinali di tutto il mondo siano già in grande subbuglio per farsi una bella fumata bianca di ottima cannabis allo scopo di eleggere un nuovo delinquente al soglio pontificio.

La vostra Miss Welby, fonte di gran lunga più affidabile di Libero o Panorama, è in grado di rivelarvi non solo chi sarà scelto come nuovo successore di San Pietro, ma addirittura anche quale nome vorrà assumere l'erede di Benedetto XVI.

Già preparatosi di bianco vestito per apparire in televisione (Quinto sentito con le mie orecchie chiedere a Pannella: "Ma se faccio il tesoriere andrò a rappresentare il partito in televisione?", Pannella ovviamente non rispose), il suo nome papale sarà

Danilo V

Già passato alla storia come l'unico esponente "radicale" (?) ad avere rubato 200mila euro all'unico partito italiano che in 60 anni di storia non aveva subito alcun furto (né dai suoi dirigenti, né tantomeno ai danni dei contribuenti), Danilo V rappresenta il candidato papale ideale per redimere i peccatori anticlericali.

Egli, il futuro Sommo Pontefice, ha ritrovato la Fede nel cattolicesimo grazie alla moglie (forse appunto Emilio Fede?), descrivendo il suo percorso sulla via di Damasco - che è proprio un gran bel posto di questi tempi -, percorso nel quale ha incarnato in Pannella il Diavolo.

Danilo V fu una autore precoce di tali opere taglienti: personalmente mi tagliò diagonalmente la carta di credito che usavo per noleggiare auto per portare da Sofia a Skopje Bonino e Dupuis in missione di pace, senza essermi mai servito dell'American Express a scopi personali, essendo le spese sempre rigorosamente documentate (ma evidentemente non le sue).

Danilo V svolgeva la sua attività di tesoriere nell'ufficio più ampio della sede del partito, seduto su una poltrona in pelle davanti a una grande scrivania, mentre una dozzina di noi "trans" all'Est vivevano con i servizi segreti comunisti alle calcagna. Due furono assassinati (Russo e Tamburi), uno perse la vista e morì di cancro (Pietrosanti) e altri tre finirono alcolisti (io e altri che non cito).

Nel frattempo Danilo V cenava molto bene in centro a Roma, ma senza tralasciare i suoi doveri: mi redarguì pesantemente (di fatto inducendomi alle dimissioni) per essermi rollato una canna nella sede del partito. Non s'era mai visto prima che uno non potesse rollarsi una canna in Torre Argentina, ma evidentemente si faceva già strada l'istinto salvifico di Sua Santità.

Nonostante lo riguardi, nelle etichette di questo post non ci sarà "QUINTO". Non lo merita, gli farebbe guadagnare un punto nel Radicalometro Storico. Al suo posto metterò invece l'etichetta "TESSARI" (vedi uno dei libri recensiti nei post precedenti) per fare invece guadagnare un punto a una persona ben più degna.

D'altronde il Radicalometro Storico, pur essendo calcolato sulle etichette di Google e preciso come i conti del partito, avendolo inventato io in casi eccezionali lo altero come mi fa comodo, e come la verità ha fatto comodo inventare e alterare al ladro, ipocrita e in una parola stronzo Danilo V.


A Brazilian construction worker in Rio de Janeiro has had a "miraculous" escape after he was rushed to hospital with a steel pole through his brain. The six-foot (two-metre) metal rod fell from the fifth floor of a building Eduardo Leite was working on and went straight through the 24-year-old's hard hat. He was taken to Miguel Couto Hospital with one end of the rod sticking out of the top of his head and the other protruding from between his eyes [...] Dr Luiz Aleandre Essinger, who treated Mr Leite, said: "It is a very uncommon injury this type of trauma, a steel rod that goes through the patient's brain. It enters through the top of the head and goes out between the eyes. The fact that the patient arrived here lucid and talking is incredible". Doctors removed the rod during a five-hour operation and Mr Leite was able to speak, eat and move his arms and legs afterwards, the hospital said. Ruy Monteiro, the head of neurosurgery, told the Globo TV network he escaped losing his eye and becoming paralysed down the left side of his body by mere centimetres. He said the bar entered a "non-eloquent" area of his brain, a part that does not have a major known function.

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Alessandro Tessari, docente all’Università di Padova, deputato al Parlamento della Repubblica (VI-X legislatura) vive a Freiburg dove fa ricerca presso il Raimundus Lullus Institut della Facoltà teologica dell’Albert-Ludwig Universität.

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In Glengarry Glen Ross, Alec Baldwin plays the character Blake, almost earning Baldwin an Oscar for the role. The salestalk presented is one of the finest ever, although sarcastic, it contains the foundations of a well meditated salesmen.

Sunday Retro Fetish


Era da un po' di tempo che mancavano dal blog le immagini delle mie amiche troiacce in tacchi altissimi...


... il fatto è che sono stata impegnata in altro da fare, ma adesso rimedio con le porcone in questo post e nel prossimo. Perdonate il ritardo: ogni tanto può capitare anche alle feticiste più incallite come me. Abbiate pazienza fino a domenica prossima

Inventor's gadget may have killed him
Police have confirmed the death of a man found in South Auckland (New Zealand) on Monday was accidental, and it is understood it was the result of home experiment which went wrong. Michael William Roiall, 34, was found dead at his Papatoetoe home about 2.30pm. It's understood the man was an amateur inventor and was found wearing a home-made helmet, which he was attempting to use to control devices in his home. It's believed the helmet may have suffocated him.
Miss Welby ha abbondantemente compiuto 6 anni e per un po' andrà alla scuola estiva di inglese. Per cui, almeno per un mesetto, niente più italiano dentro qui per le notizie cazzute (salvo cose serie come il Radicalometro). Ciao ciao



A 'Who's Your Daddy' van is travelling around New York City, offering men the chance to find out whether they are the father of a child. The owner and operator of the vehicle, Jared Rosenthal, is selling DNA tests, mostly to those who suspect youngsters may not actually be theirs. Costing between $299 and $575, men just have to give a cheek swab. Then there is a laboratory analysis and the paternity results are available in a couple of days.


Timothy Price, 29, who last visited a barber in 2002, thinks his red locks would make a great wig. Timothy cut off the natural red locks he had been cultivating for 10 years. And in case any fans of Princess Merida in Disney’s new Scottish film Brave want to adopt the flame-haired look, he has put the hair on sale for £600 [...] The PhD student, from Aberdeen, has always refused to get his hair cut and last visited a barber in January 2002.


The plants were lit by halogen lamps suspended from the ceiling of the tunnel

Police in Rome have sniffed out a cannabis factory in an abandoned metro tunnel built during the rule of Fascist leader Benito Mussolini, in the 1930s. Officers reportedly stumbled across the factory after smelling the pungent crop near an entrance, not far from the Italian central bank.


The theft from Cliff Parade, Penarth, was discovered on Tuesday morning. Thieves have stolen thousands of pounds worth of paving slabs from a street in a seaside town. More than 100 slabs, worth about £40 each, were taken from Cliff Parade, Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, some time between Monday and early Tuesday. Council officers have cordoned off the area pending repairs and have appealed for witnesses who may have seen a lorry taking slabs away. The street was previously targeted by pavement thieves in 2004.

Penis-eating fish attacks 3 boys in southern Vietnam 
A local man hunts down a mysterious fish that allegedly attacked three local children in the southern province of Dong Thap. An unknown fish has attacked three children in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap, leaving them critically injured, Tuoi Tre quoted a local doctor as saying Saturday. Dr. Nguyen Van Hoang from Thap Muoi District Hospital said two of the children, seven-year-old Nguyen Huu Thien and four-year-old Nguyen Hoan Hao, are still in the hospital after the attacks on August 5 and 9 respectively. Both of them suffered serious injuries to their penises – Thien lost most of his while Hao lost half of it, Hoang said, adding that doctors have conducted surgeries to re-join the boys with their severed members.

Cannabis factory found in Lancashire 
A cannabis factory, with an estimated street value of up to £80,000, has been discovered at a farmhouse in Oswaldtwistle. Officers found the 200 plants in the upstairs bedrooms on Pot House Lane (!) after a warrant at the address this afternoon. The plants have been seized along with lighting and cultivation equipment. Enquiries are ongoing to find out who was responsible. Cannabis factory discovered in Oswaldtwistle farmhouse.


A family of bears is suspected of having broken into a cabin in northern Norway and polished off over a hundred cans of beer. "They had a hell of a party in there," cabin owner Even Borthen Nilsen told NRK. "The cabin has the stench of a right old piss up, trash, and bears". The bear, and three cubs, are reported to have forced their way into the cabin by ripping a wall off. "The entire cabin was destroyed," Nilsen told the local Finnmarken.no daily [...] And furthermore the bears had finished off all the food and drink in the house - including all the marshmallows, chocolate spread, honey and over 100 cans of beer...


Reporter Richard Wheatstone with the olive oil and blackcurrant squash he was sold It was the speed of it all which surprised me most – just 15 minutes earlier I had entered a church seeking guidance over a sick uncle and now I was being offered a miracle cure. I had first become aware of the church when their head office in London contacted me to find out more about Gorton – ahead of submitting a ‘change of use’ application to the council for their Manchester base. Curious about a potential new contact on my patch I decided to do a bit of research, and quickly became concerned by what I saw.

Church leaders had already got into hot water for making unsubstantiated claims about curing cancer, HIV and diabetes. These promises were also elaborated upon by the church’s website. The claims were certainly bold and having lost family members to cancer myself, I know only too well the internal bargaining and sense of desperation which kick in as you face up to the reality that a loved-one may be slipping away. With this in mind I entered the church, on Hyde Road, to see how such a delicate issue was being handled by respected community leaders.

I was greeted by Pastor Mbenga who listened attentively as I explained my uncle was dying of cancer and I was in need of guidance. He first explained that if I opened my heart to Jesus and allowed him into my life he could ease my inner turmoil. But after a few minutes the conversation quickly took a turn, despite me explaining that I had no strong religious views and certainly never mentioning I was looking for a miracle cure, I was told unequivocally that if I bought the blackcurrant squash on offer in the church shop it would cure my uncle’s cancer. I was led into the shop to be shown the products along with anecdotes of how cancer and diabetes sufferers had been able to throw away their medication after making a full recovery.

I was invited to return to the church for a service later that week after which I would purchase the goods and have them blessed by Pastor Mbenga before taking them home. He instructed me to mix the liquids, one part olive oil to three parts squash, once a day. The measurements required meant I’d have to return to buy new supplies of the £14 ingredients around twice a week. Once my uncle had drunk the mixture, I was told, "God will take over with divine intervention and the cancer will disappear". The mark-up of more than 200 per cent on these products – which could end up costing several hundreds of pounds over a period of just a few months – in the middle of one of Manchester’s most deprived communities, also felt questionable at best. I respect that people are free to pursue their own beliefs but felt that in a vulnerable position I was offered the guarantee of a miracle cure in a bid to get me into the church. Encouraging people to part with their cash promising a quick fix for a savage illness seems wrong, irrespective of belief. There are laws against it for a reason - to protect people when they feel at their most vulnerable.



Rome's Fiumicino airport has defended its security procedures after a drunk Norwegian tourist fell asleep on a baggage belt and travelled 160 feet before being identified by an X-ray scanner. The 36-year-old, who has not been named, arrived at the international terminal of Italy's busiest airport at the end of last month with a backpack and a can of beer in his hand. The Norwegian was due to check in for a flight to Oslo and when he found no one on duty at the airline desk he leapt across the counter and fell into a deep asleep on the baggage belt with his bag beside him. As the belt began to move the unsuspecting tourist reportedly travelled for 15 minutes through the secure baggage area in Terminal 3 before officials spotted his body curled up in a foetal position in an X-ray image on their monitors. He slept through the whole episode and airport police had trouble waking him when they were called to the scene to investigate what had happened. A senior officer with Fiumicino airport police said on Thursday the incident exposed no weaknesses in the terminal's security and it was not the first kind of incident involving "drunks or people with psychological problems".
Man arrested in bizarre convenience store incident
Louisville Metro Police were called to a gas station on a type of bathroom emergency. According to a police report, police responded to the Speedway convenience store in the 2300 block of Brownsboro Road after reports of a man lighting a toilet seat on fire. Upon arrival police arrested James Crittenden, 36, who had been confronted by store personnel in the restroom. According to the written citation, Crittenden told store workers he lit the fire for religious reasons [...] Crittenden is now charged with arson.


Nude Woman in a Red Armchair was covered up at the airport Edinburgh Airport has reversed its decision to cover up a poster featuring a Picasso nude following complaints. Nude Woman in a Red Armchair was advertising the Picasso and Modern British Art exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. However, the airport decided to cover the image after several complaints from passengers in international arrivals [...] John Leighton, director-general of the National Galleries of Scotland, said: "It is obviously bizarre that all kinds of images of women in various states of dress and undress can be used in contemporary advertising without comment, but somehow a painted nude by one of the world's most famous artists is found to be disturbing and has to be removed...
Posters warn girls of acid attacks if seen in jeans in Ranchi 
Posters warning of serious consequences like acid attacks if women wore jeans and tops created panic across the city on Tuesday but police refused to react to the threats and had made no arrests throughout the day. Written in red ink, these posters by a group calling itself Jharkhand Mukti Sangh were seen at Albert Ekka Chowk, outside the office of the registrar and St John School at around 9.30am. They were deliberately penned in red ink to give the impression that they were the handiwork of a rebel group, said police.